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LilLeaguer
Joined: Mon May 16, 2011 10:54 am Posts: 48
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Predestination Alive for 2016 Hugos?
Predestination was not nominated for a Hugo this year. But because there is some confusion about its release date and eligibility, some folks are proposing to have it held over for eligibility next year as well.
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LilLeaguer
Joined: Mon May 16, 2011 10:54 am Posts: 48
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Re: Predestination Alive for 2016 Hugos?
According to the comments on , the extension for Predestination has passed. It would be good to see this nominated next year, but the feature film competition is going to be fierce.
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BillMullins
Joined: Thu Aug 21, 2008 12:40 pm Posts: 545
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Re: Predestination Alive for 2016 Hugos?
It did not make the cut. Of the five that did (Avengers: Age of Ultron, Ex Machina, Mad Max: Fury Road, The Martian, Star Wars: The Force Awakens), I only saw The Martian and SW:TFA, and would support The Martian as the best SF movie I've seen in a long time (although I don't think suit pressure would actually shoot Matt Damon as fast as the filmmakers seemed to think).
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PeterScott
Heinlein Nexus
Joined: Thu Apr 10, 2008 8:10 am Posts: 2236 Location: Pacific NorthWest
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Re: Predestination Alive for 2016 Hugos?
Bah. Predestination is the best re-creation of any Golden Era story, period. Philistines.
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beamjockey
Centennial Attendee
Joined: Thu Apr 10, 2008 10:46 am Posts: 545 Location: Aurora, IL, USA, Terra
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Re: Predestination Alive for 2016 Hugos?
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beamjockey
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Re: Predestination Alive for 2016 Hugos?
"'All You Zombies'" belongs to the family of Heinlein Stories With Weirdly-Punctuated Titles, of which there are many. Truly he was Grand Master of the Em-Dash—
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BillMullins
Joined: Thu Aug 21, 2008 12:40 pm Posts: 545
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mostlyclassics
Joined: Wed Jan 07, 2015 5:33 pm Posts: 131 Location: Evanston, IL
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Re: Predestination Alive for 2016 Hugos?
BillMullins, you forgot
Starship Troopers (really a parody of the novel)
I have to agree with PeterScott Predestination is the best Golden Age film adaptation I've seen, too.
I've seen A Sound of Thunder, but only on the tube, where it may have been brutally cut to fit the time slot. In that format, I found a relatively straightforward story rendered almost incoherent. Maybe the full movie is better.
If you do include Something Wicked This Way Comes, I have problems with the script. Vast swaths of the dialogue were pure Bradbury, and while they "read" right on the page, they just don't "speak" right on the screen. For a while, we watched it every Halloween. I got to cringing. When our son got old enough to cringe, too, we retired that tradition.
And 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) is only very loosely based on "The Sentinel" (1948).
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